Quotes About Past

CLYTEMNESTRA. Nay, peace, O best-belovèd! Peace! And let us work no evil more. Surely the reaping of the past is a full harvest, and not good, And wounds enough are everywhere.—Let us not stain ourselves with blood.

My memory is again in the way of your history

the loss of love that comes to mean more than the love itself and how explain that? — a still pool in the forest that has ceased to reflect anything except the past from "Listening to Myself

To have a sexual history did not only imply one had made love to a succession of people, it also suggested one had either rejected or been rejected by these same bedroom companions.

It could be a Michael Powell film or a page from the diaries of Denton Welch...the field would make a good Brideshead-like beginning for a film: as it is now and as it was then...'There is nothing I would want to alter or improve. Unattended to, disregarded (though it's grade 1 listed) it is just as the past should be.

nine years earlier. Life was still

Un pasado doloroso se cura prestando atención a las bendiciones del mismo.

Todo tu pasado, excepto su belleza, ha desaparecido, y no queda ni rastro de él, salvo una bendición» (T-5.IV.8:2).

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

Si te centras en los momentos dolorosos, creas un pasado doloroso que arrastras al presente. Cuando te centras en los momentos felices, creas un pasado feliz y experimentas paz en el presente.

All your past except its beauty is gone, and nothing is left but a blessing.

When we look to the past ... what we are always looking for is whatever is better than we are ... The future cannot teach us because we are the ones who must imagine it.

In a world of shifting past, these memories are wheat in wind, fleet in dreams, shapes in clouds. Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened.

Most people have learned how to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed in for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time to be judged on their own.

Such is the cost immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past.

if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future

Continents of memory had been lost.

Philosophers have argued without a trend toward order; time would lack meaning. The future would be indistinguishable from the past. Sequences of events would be just so many random scenes from a thousand novels. History would be indistinct, like the mist slowly gathered by treetops in evening.

Or perhaps cause lies forever in the past while effect in the future, but future and past are entwined.

If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.

So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. The past tense, I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha.

Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners. Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened to them? Rorschach: [exiting] You quit.